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Supersymmetric black holes from internal dimensions in string theory
Mathematical Physics| Speaker: | Alessandro Tomasiello, Stanford |
| Location: | 2240 MSB |
| Start time: | Fri, Nov 17 2006, 3:10PM |
Description
Recent progress in supergravity has allowed to classify geometrically
supersymmetric solutions. We will see how four dimensional black holes
and their attractor mechanism can be described using generalized
complex geometry. As a warm-up we will describe a similar
classification for vacua in type II theories, and review what is known
about explicit examples beyond the Calabi-Yau case.